infocausality

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Information-Theoretic Measure of Causality

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Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LyuFirst published 2025-11-032 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Methods for quantifying temporal and spatial causality through information flow, and decomposing it into unique, redundant, and synergistic components, following the framework described in Martinez-Sanchez et al. (2024) doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53373-4.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("infocausality", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("stscl/infocausality")

Development version from stscl/infocausality. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-infocausality

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-infocausality

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-infocausality

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 8.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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OK2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
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Documentation

READMEYes · 172 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stscl/infocausality

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/stscl/infocausality on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

methodsreticulate sdsfun sf terra

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Rcpp

Suggests (8)

gdverse ggplot2 infoxtr knitr Rcpp rmarkdown spEDM tEDM

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1

Authors (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1

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Wenbo Lv

no longer listed · 1.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-03
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 220 KB
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